The 7th Obis Omni Forum received great feedback from the 100 plus senior business, finance and IT personnel who attended the event last week (24 November). Here is a breakdown of the day's sessions with highlights of the key points made.

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We are absolutely thrilled by the phenomenal response we have received from The Cloud Circle members following The 2nd Cloud Circle Forum – 8 July 2010. Since last Thursday, we have been inundated with fantastic feedback and we would like to share some of the best with you.

Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do. Or do without." That adage from the Great Depression is making a comeback these days among corporations that are digging deep to maintain profitability using business tools they already have in-house.

The promise of unified communications technology is a single, homogenous platform for all digital communications. But while technologies that bridge the divide between IP-based and mobile networks are widely (if not cheaply) available for most organisations, there is a glaring disunity at the heart of their communications infrastructure.

SAP BusinessObjects' BI suite, BusinessObjects XI, for example, offers query, reporting, dashboarding and search capabilities, among others, in one package. The same goes for BI suites from IBM Cognos, Oracle and Information Builders.

In this one to one interview with Ajay Ohri of DecisionStats.com, Timo Elliott passes on his thoughts such as covering trends in predictive analytics, cloud computing and social network analysis.